Outside the Ancestral God Secret Realm, in the Primal Universe.
Yang Zheng's figure seemed to merge with the void. He opened his hand, revealing an ancient, unadorned necklace that was neither metal nor jade resting quietly in his palm.
"I finally got it!"
A satisfied smile spread across his lips, and irrepressible eagerness flashed through his deep eyes.
"Void Devourer," Yang Zheng called with a thought.
"Ee-ya~" came a mental response filled with innocent affection.
A tiny, delicate plant lifeform emerged from a gap in his shoulder armor, its tender green leaves gently swaying. It was his plant auxiliary lifeform-the Space-Eating Flower.
The Space-Eating Flower's leaves trembled slightly. Half a breath later, a faint thought carrying unmistakable confusion and unease reached Yang Zheng's sea of consciousness.
"What? You can't sense any of the Divine Power Tokens?"
Yang Zheng's brow furrowed slightly. Before leaving the Crystal Wall Secret Realm, he had hidden several Divine Power Tokens to serve as coordinates. Now, not a single one could be detected.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Zheng's figure blurred. An instant later, he vanished completely from outside the Ancestral God Secret Realm, heading straight for the Barren Star Domain outside the Crystal Wall Secret Realm nearest to him.
In the Barren Star Domain, outside the membrane of the Crystal Wall Secret Realm.
The tough, thick, dark red crystal wall had once required a Universe Venerable to tear even a tiny opening in it. Now, before Yang Zheng, it seemed utterly fragile.
Facing the crystal wall that filled his vision, its surging energy pulsing like billions of blood vessels, he made no earthshaking preparations. He merely raised his right hand casually and slashed at the dark red membrane ahead.
Hiss!
A vast, smooth, unfathomably deep rift instantly appeared in the crystal wall, spatial turbulence flickering